Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The ‘Crab Crakes and Cheese Steaks Tour’ will be hitting the eastern seaboard - kicking off on August 14th. Ryan Gallant, Sierra Fellers, Tony Tave, Scott Decenzo and Walker Ryan will be hitting shops and skate parks heading up through Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Massachussets and New Hampshire.Check out recent Dialog interviews and footage for Gallant, Walker and Decenzo by visiting www.C1RCA.com/dialog. See the poster for full details of each stop or go to www.C1RCA.com.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I havent been posting stuff for a while and its becasue i whent on a family trip. and my laptop crashed so i could not take it.So here is the latest news.

Carhartt Presents the 9th Edition of Etnies EUROPEAN SKATEBOARD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009August 6th – 9th 2009Kunsteisbahn MargarethenBasel, SwitzerlandStreet, Miniramp, Girl’s JamThe Experiment beginsOnce again the European skateboard scene comes together in Basel from August 6th to 9th, for the 9th edition of the etnies European Skateboard Championships. Confirmed skateboarders are Juergen Horrwarth from Berlin, who won miniramp last year, Phil Zwijsen from Belgium, who won street and last year’s Girl’s Jam winner Ianire Elorriaga from Spain, as well as Ricardo Paterno from the Netherlands, the winner of the recent Amster DamnAm competition and crowd’s favorite Axel Cruysberghs from Belgium.

Already on Thursday we kick off with the Junior Champs in four age groups, but just the very best top 10 of the overall junior ranking continue to skateboard on Saturday in the qualification. Everybody who is not qualified needs to skate the prequalification on Friday. Qualified skateboarders are posted on www.skateboardeurope.com . All the finals are held on Sunday!

Following data has already been estimated for the series of experiments:

Estimated amount of skateboarders: 490

Estimated amount of wood: 60 m3

Estimated sum of screws: 10 000

Average temperature over the weekend: 25,4

Estimated number of nationalities: 22

Estimated amount for international roaming costs during the event: 37 427,00 Euro

Estimated number of broken skateboards: 73

Used calories: 5 000 000 kcl

Estimated number of kickflips during the weekend and official timing: 5683

cumulative gravity: 5G

IOU-Ramps is already onsite and constructing the first elements of the experiment on the streetcourse and in the miniramp, severals updates will be soon available www.skateboardeurope.com or follow us on twitter.com/ESC_Basel.